I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading. I had been using One Year Bible Online, but it was time for a change.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Numbers 34-36.

    The most interesting part of this passage is the establishment of the cities of refuge. It provided a place of refuge where someone who had accidentally killed another person could go to avoid being killed by the dead person’s relatives. The killer still had to stand trial to determine whether the death was truly accidental. One of the points was that if you caused someone’s death by striking them with an object, the death was not considered accidental. There is a list of things which indicate that even if you did not intend to kill the person, you did intend to cause them serious harm. However, there is also a list of things which suggest that the death was indeed an accident. Finally, it is worth noting that even if the person is found to have not purposely killed the victim, there are still consequences which they will suffer.